Re: Key mapping in X

[Rob Hudson <rob@eugene.net>]

Awesome.  I added this to my .Xmodmap in my /home dir...

! Swap Caps_Lock and Control_L
!
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Escape = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Escape
add Lock = Caps_Lock

... and it worked after I typed 'xmodmap .Xmodmap'.  Will X read
this file on start up each time?  Or do I have to tell it to?

Thanks,
Rob.

Stephen A. Witt said these things on 20001024.1519:
| On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Rob Hudson wrote:
| 
| > I'm a big vim user and would like to switch the functionality of the
| > Caps_Lock key and the Escape key.  I have found where to do this in
| > the console.  Which file to I edit to swap these in X?
| > 
| 
| Well, one way you can probably do it is with the xmodmap program. I use it
| to remap the caps lock key and the control key for emacs. xmodmap is part
| of the xbase-clients package. 
| 
|